More Than Meets the Eye

March 22, 2022March 22, 2022 — Family, Personal — 1 min read

There is a saying that a picture is worth a thousand words. But not in this case. The picture shows a Casio G-Shock watch in nearly pristine condition, yet it doesn’t begin to tell the story of this watch. Six and a half years ago our son suddenly passed. This was his watch. Recently the watch I have worn for decades finally gave out. (There is a story about that watch also.) I have had this watch waiting as its replacement for those six and a half years. I guess it was fitting the battery had finally given up after all those years. A couple of YouTube videos, a trip to the store to buy the correct battery and it was running once again. Any parent who has lost a child knows you never stop thinking of them, even if the thoughts are few and far between.

Never Give Up

March 21, 2022March 22, 2022 — Inspiration — 1 min read

We have a fabric wall planter attached to one the pillars of our pergola. Each pocket has a drip waterer and the entire system is on a timer watering every other day for a few minutes. Having been gone for 9 1/2 months we were surprised to see some of the plants were still growing. This highly frost susceptible coleus looking worse for the wear managed to survive the deep cold spell that occurred a few weeks before we returned. It reminds us that it just isn’t we who have to struggle through the day at times.

Just a Little Fix

March 20, 2022March 22, 2022 — Other — 2 min read

It’s what used to allow the shower door in our travel RV to be also used to separate the front from the back. One way it was closed against the shower leaving the hallway open, or it swung across the hallway and when secured with this latch, blocked the hallway separating the front from the back.

This part broke. There was a plastic insert in the ring which locked onto a piece mounted on the wall on the other side of the hallway. Unfortunately when the latch was installed the two pieces were not lined up properly.

Closeup of my fix of the hole, toothpicks and glue. If I just screwed the bullnose part back into the same hole, the door bracket would soon be broken again.

New door bracket mounted exactly like the broken one. I pushed the bullnose into it after removing the mounting screw, then closed it across the hall. The hole where the screw goes was slightly below and to the left of the repaired hole.

In this position I drilled a pilot hole using the screw hole in the bullnose as a guide, then screwed the bullnose in place. The door now works perfectly. Happy wife, happy Life.

Wax On, Wax Off

March 19, 2022March 20, 2022 — Eclectic — 1 min read

So maybe I used a little leeway in the title and -dirt on, dirt off –

would have been more accurate, but the hand action is the same.

There is dirty, then there is dirty.

So just how dirty was it? Seeing is believing.

They Did It Their Way

March 18, 2022March 18, 2022 — Eclectic — 1 min read

The local green waste area. By my way of thinking, but I could be wrong, shouldn’t people dump their waste as far back in the area as possible? And what about the pile of dirt? Am I wrong in thinking dirt doesn’t fall under the classification of green waste? There is also a large sign saying No Plastic in two languages, still there are a number of plastic bottles back there. We dumped our two tarps of green waste as far back as possible. Are some of these people just thoughtless, or do they simply not care?